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Unfortunately, I don’t think this is Apple’s choice. I think the rights holders get to dictate whether people can download the things or not.
by imgabe 6y ago
Unfortunately, I don’t think this is Apple’s choice. I think the rights holders get to dictate whether people can download the things or not.
- izacus 6y agoApple is strong enough to offer iTunes music without DRM, so I'm not sure why you're letting them off the hook here. They could do it, they just choose not to.
- josephcsible 6y agoApple is big enough that if they told the MPAA "unless you let us distribute your movies DRM-free, we're not selling them to consumers", the MPAA would probably budge.
- anonymousab 6y ago> Apple is big enough that if they told the MPAA "unless you let us distribute your movies DRM-free, we're not selling them to consumers", the MPAA would probably budge I think it's the opposite. There's no chance at all that they'd do that because Apple would only be hurting themselves (and likely directly destroying Apple TV in some way) and the existing industry assumptions about DRM and privacy are entrenched, if not core. We are a long ways away from when you played ball with iTunes or you didn't play digital music ball at all. They would also likely have legal and PR pressure to exert against such a move. Regardless of whether Apple is or isn't a monopoly, they definitely don't want a billion dollar industry going after them in that angle right now.